Contents

President's Message
 Teen Summit Follow-up
Tips for Communicating with Your Teen
Maintenance of Confidentiality
Fall Programs at Langley HS
Student Connection
Stress
Teen Depression
Citizen Corps
Raising Kids in Washington
Internet Safety

President's Message

On September 28th SCC was notified that we received a one-year Drug-Free Communities Act grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services. The grant, for $72, 650, is a one-for-one matching grant. Our match includes the Board of Supervisors funds for the middle school/after school program ($19,000), funds expended by the McLean Community Center in support of the Old Firehouse Teen Center middle school/after school program ($35,500), member donations (already almost $2,400 since July), and donated volunteer hours (over $40,000 equivalent). These funds are in addition to the $15,000 we receive each year from the Federal Safe and Drug Free Youth grant.

For the first time, we will have ample funds to support character education-related programs in all of our schools. We will expand programming in the middle and high schools, including initiation of after-school intramural programs at Cooper and Longfellow. Our major new emphasis is at the upper elementary grades. With ten public and four private elementary schools in the McLean and Langley pyramids, sheer numbers of schools and limited funds have hindered our efforts in the past. Now, with the new grant funds and a growing awareness that risky behaviors are starting at younger ages, we will be devoting much effort this year to grades 4-6. Four members of our board have agreed to be the primary points of contact for ethics, character education, and bullying programs for grades 4-6 in our public schools. I thank Evelyn Fox (Kent Gardens, Timber Lane, Franklin Sherman), Susan Gorin (Spring Hill, Churchill Road), Jackie Matheny (Chesterbrook, Haycock), and Diane Pechstein (Forestville, Colvin Run, and Great Falls) for taking on this assignment. They will be working with principals, guidance counselors, teachers, and the PTAs to sponsor programs for students and parents.

We in SCC are excited about the opportunities these funds provide to help our community develop strong, responsible citizens. Spending this money wisely is a daunting task. If you would like to volunteer to help, please email us and let us know.

We also want to thank the many parents who have become members or renewed their membership this year. Eighty-eight families have sent in their registration forms. In just over a month into the new school year, we have already exceeded brochure responses for any previous year. We now have over 750 families who are members of SCC.

Jan Auerbach, SCC President

 

2004-2005 Programs

SCC has identified its ongoing and new projects for the 2004-2005 year. These projects and the lead persons for them are:

Ongoing Projects

Youth Programs

  1. Student Connection (Emily Newman)
  2. Annual recognition program (Sherry Wells)
  3. Reprint the Teen Crisis Card (Jan Auerbach)
  4. Grant for McLean/Longfellow tutoring program (Rosemary Grefe)
  5. Grant for Longfellow/Timber Lane, Cooper/Forestville, Cooper/Great Falls tutoring programs and Teen Center after school program (Debbi Hart)
  6. Grants to McLean and Langley all-night grad parties (Becky Yearour/Rosemary Grefe)
  7. Grant for McLeadership program at McLean High (Rosemary Grefe)
  8. Grant for Langley Ethics Day (Becky Yearout)
  9. Middle School Forum (Sharon Burdick/Eileen Culligan/Sherry Wells/Jan Auerbach)
  10. Elementary Mediation Workshop (Charlotte Potashnik)

Parent and Family Programs

  1. SCC Newsletter (Robin Hoehn)
  2. Six-week parenting course (Rosemary Grefe)

Community Programs

  1. SCC booth at McLean Day (Elwood Howerton)
  2. Project Hospitality (Sherry Wells)
  3. SCC Newsletter (Robin Hoehn)
  4. Faculty-administrator reception (Sharon Burdick)
  5. Annual recognition program (Sherry Wells)
  6. Teen Summit (Jan Auerbach/Cameron Edgar/Joan Morton/Helene Clayton-Jeter/Student Connector Coordinators)
  7. Fundraising effort (Marilyn Seiber)
  8. Alcohol/drug adult awareness press conference (Jan Auerbach)
  9. Web site (Tom Hamilton)

New Programs

  1. Elementary Ethics programs (Evelyn Fox/Susan Gorin/Jackie Matheny/Diane Pechstein)
  2. Parent program on stress (Marilyn Seiber/Charlotte Potashnik/Susan Gorin)
  3. Life of a Middle School Boy or Girl (Leslie Metge/Debbi Hart)
  4. Student focus on stress (Marilyn Seiber for middle and high schools, Evelyn Fox/Susan Gorin/Jackie Matheny/Diane Pechstein for elementary schools)
  5. Panel for parents on laws and responsibilities on alcohol and drug abuse including consequences and videos (Don Morton)
  6. Instruction on time management
  7. School-based after-school programs (Debbi Hart)
  8. Vision Warrior at Langley (Marilyn Seiber)
  9. Rosalind Wiseman parent/student talk (Eileen Culligan)
  10. Work with schools to have social component (stress, depression screening, eating disorders) added to rising freshman orientation (Susan Gorin)
  11. Mentoring by HS students of MS students (Jan Auerbach)
  12. Encourage FCPS to establish clear guidelines and harsher penalties for cheating (Jan Auerbach)
  13. Risky sexual behavior program for parents
  14. Advocate statute to increase penalties for adults aiding and abetting teen drinking
  15. Advocate random student drug testing (Don Morton)
  16. "Black Balloon Day" at McLean and Langley (Marilyn Seiber)
  17. Write articles on various parenting issues for PTSA newsletters
  18. Program on bullying (Ed Rothschild for parents, Evelyn Fox/Susan Gorin/Jackie Matheny/Diane Pechstein for elementary school students)
  19. Encourage teachers to take action if they hear vulgar words or rumors (Jan Auerbach)

Check our web site for upcoming dates.

 

Teen Summit Follow-Up

The following is a status report on implementation of the recommendations arising from the February 2004 Teen Summit:

Morality

Crack down on bad language. SCC has requested both high school principals to emphasize to their teachers the importance of taking prompt and consistent action when witnessing bad language.

Encourage fair play and do not favor athletes. SCC initiated an effort to revisit the afterschool activity pledge to ensure consistency in its application. Fairfax County Public Schools’ Director of Student Activities Paul Jansen convened a task force last year to review the current policy. The task force recommended updating the policy. A draft is currently circulating and should be finalized during this school year.

Move "Ethics Day" type programs down to elementary schools. SCC is working with elementary schools to hold an Ethics Day and/or otherwise emphasize ethical behavior.

Eating Disorders

Repeat "Wellness Week." Langley High held its Wellness Week the week of September 13. McLean High is also planning to hold a Wellness Week.

Continue "Saturday Night in the Suburbs." Langley High will hold its program on November 10. McLean High will hold theirs in the spring.

Suicide

Screen for depression. Six county high schools currently screen for depression, either for cause or for all students. The Mental Health Task Force of the Fairfax Partnership for Youth is initiating an effort to urge all high schools to screen for depression.

Issue Teen Crisis Cards. Teen Crisis cards were provided to Langley, McLean, Longfellow, and Cooper the first week of school, for distribution to all students.

Drinking

Select a school "Black Balloon Day." SCC is working with both Langley and McLean to schedule a "Black Balloon Day" to reinforce the message of not drinking and driving.

Continue "Saturday Night in the Suburbs." Langley High will hold its program on November 10. McLean High will hold theirs in the spring.

Stress

Educate parents, students, and teachers to recognize depression. SCC is working with all schools in the Langley and McLean pyramids to offer programs on stress for students and parents this year.

Communication

Students/parents spend time together. See article below for tips for communicating with your teen.

 

Tips for Communicating With Your Teen

The Fall 2003 issue of Driven, a publication of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), contained some tips for communicating with your teen on sensitive subjects:

Guidance on Maintenance of Confidentiality

At the 2003 Teen Summit, students suggested that one way to address alcohol and drug abuse issues is to have some adult at school that students could talk to who could maintain confidentiality of anything that was said. There was some question at the Summit whether it was legally possible to maintain confidentiality of all information. This article provides the legal answer to that question.

All professionals, whether teachers, counselors, psychologists, social workers, Alcohol and Drug Services (ADS) specialists, nurses, and anyone else providing a listening ear understands the desire of students to maintain total confidentiality. However, adult listeners must, by law, break that confidentiality if a student is being abused or is in danger of harming him/herself or someone else (Code of Virginia 63.2-1509). With regard to the question of suicide, The Code of Virginia (22.1-272.1) specifies the responsibility to contact a parent.  The only exception to this rule is if the parent is in some way responsible for the risk, in which case the threat is to be reported to Child Protective Services. With regard to issues of child abuse, the information must be reported directly to Child Protective Services or the Police Department. Depending on the seriousness of the potential harm to the rest of the school body, school staff might also feel obliged to report information regarding drug possession or drug dealing. All of the above applies whether it is the student him/herself who might commit the act or the student is reporting that a friend is in danger of committing the act. To feel more comfortable before discussing matters of a personal nature, students can always ask a staff person what types of information they might feel obliged to report and to whom.

The ADS Resource Specialist assigned to McLean and Langley High Schools is Ellie Cunanan who can be reached at (703) 538-3215, or by email at elnora.cunanan@fairfaxcounty.gov. She is at each school two days per week. Her primary goal is to help at-risk students succeed academically and socially. Her job is to provide substance abuse prevention, intervention, education, consultation, and treatment referral services for students and their families. ADS Resource Specialists operate under a different set of confidentiality regulations than school personnel. ADS counselors must keep all matters concerning drug and alcohol use confidential. They cannot tell parents or anyone else anything regarding drugs and alcohol without written permission from the student (Federal Confidentiality Rules 42 CFR Part 2). ADS specialists are under the same requirements as teachers and other professionals to report matters of abuse/neglect, suicide, and homicide.

While students may believe that reporting this information breaks a trust with a friend, the issues involved are so serious that it is more important to find help to address the problem than to remain silent. Students are encouraged to express their concerns to the appropriate parent. However, sometimes it is easier to tell another adult and let that adult initiate the contact. If parents suspect their child is using alcohol or drugs, they may request the ADS specialist to conduct an evaluation of the student to determine if therapeutic services are appropriate.

 

Fall Programs at Langley High School

In response to parent requests, SCC, in coordination with the PTSA Parent Network and Cooper Middle School, will sponsor a panel on "Teen Stress and Depression: Resources for Parents," in the LHS library, Wednesday, December 1 at 7:30 PM. Parents have inquired about availability of school and FCPS resources to handle teen problems of stress and depression, how school guidance departments address these issues, and what programs might be available from FCPS. Panelists will be Cynthia Meade, LHS Director of Student Services; Michele Boak, Cooper Middle School Director of Student Services; Carol Stroh, FCPS social worker at LHS; and Susan Gorin, Executive Director, National Association of School Psychologists. Mark your calendar and plan to attend! If you have questions, contact Marilyn Seiber, 703-893-1559, mjs1wan2@bellatlantic.net.

Vision Warrior Returns to LHS. SCC will sponsor the return to LHS of "Vision Warrior," a program presented by actor Scot Anthony Robinson that seeks to teach students the dangers of experimenting with drugs and alcohol. Mr. Robinson came to Langley two years ago to give the "Vision Warrior" message and meet with students over a two-day period. Because all grades saw the program in 2002, Vision Warrior will be presented to only the 9th and 10th grades on Friday, December 10. "Vision Warrior" is a theatrical lecture presentation performed by stage, film, and television actor Scot Anthony Robinson. The Partnership for Drug Free America has said that Robinson’s presentation, which discusses and addresses young people’s struggles with peer pressures, self-esteem dilemmas, violence, sex, alcohol, drugs, and relationships, is "perhaps the best in the nation at reaching and impacting our youth on these critical topics." See Visionwarrior.com for more information.

 

Student Connection

Student Connection is an SCC-sponsored program to help transfer high school students make the transition to McLean and Langley High Schools. Upperclass students are paired with each transferee. The pairs meet at orientation the week before school starts. The Student Connector guides the transferee around the school at the orientation, showing them where their classes and locker are. During the first couple of weeks of school they eat lunch with them and otherwise help make them feel welcome. The upperclass Student Connectors then assist SCC with other programs during the year, such as the Middle School Forum and the Teen Summit.

This year all Langley and McLean upperclassmen were invited to become Student Connectors by attending one of two training sessions held at the end of August at the Old Firehouse Teen Center. Over 250 upperclassmen attended the training sessions. McLean and Langley each had about 50-80 transfer students. For the first time, SCC had more Student Connectors than transferees! Connectors doubled up to enable each transferee to have more than one "buddy." Many thanks to Emily Newman for managing the Student Connection program this year. The other coordinators at Langley are Matt Moynihan and Jay Singh. Coordinators at McLean are Ginna Altmeyer, Megan Blumenthal, Mary Kate Corcoran, and Elizabeth Jennings.

 

Stress

We believe high levels of stress and the inability to manage stress are underlying causes of many of the risky behaviors engaged in by youth. Parents should know sources and signs of stress, and what to do when your child exhibits stress anxiety.

Sources of Stress:

Signs of Stress:

What to Do about Stress:

The Texas Women’s University Self Help Counseling Center offers the following techniques for reducing stress:

  1. LARGE MUSCLE ACTIVITY: Stress prepares the body to move so take action to reduce the stress. Take a walk inside or outside, exercise, stretch, do isometric exercises, engage in smaller muscle activity such as wiggling your toes, doodling, use a handspring.
  2. USE THE DO-NUT: Remember anger is a cover-up of painful feelings. When you're angry, rather than explode, intervene to bring the stress down and then look for the pain and hurt underneath. When someone is angry with you, remember the Do-Nut. Rather than becoming defensive and counterattacking, look for their pain and hurt, listen and empathize.
  3. TALK TO OTHERS: Identify a family member, friend or colleague who will listen to you and understand. Talk with them. Don't just find someone who will agree with your point or collude in putting others down. This only reinforces your stress.
  4. SLOW DOWN: Society tends to emphasize that speed equals efficiency. However, research shows accuracy and enjoyment drop with increased speed. Speed gets the goal accomplished but the cost is less enjoyment, poorer quality and increased stress. Slowing down increases performance, quality and enjoyment while reducing stress.
  5. MUSCLE RELAXATION: Learn relaxation skills such as progressive relaxation, yoga, massage, biofeedback, meditation. Practice the skill so you'll have it available in times of stress.
  6. SEEK PLEASURABLE GOODIES: Find out what hobbies and activities you enjoy. Engage in them, especially during stress times.
  7. CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE: Recognize when you're catastrophizing and focusing on the negative. Try to be more positive. Check to see if you have control over the situation. If you don't, accepting the situation as it is can reduce the stress. Be more realistic in self-talk. Learn to tolerate and to forgive.
  8. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF: Most of us are uncomfortable when we think of caring for ourselves, but we wouldn't think of neglecting our responsibilities. Thus, in times of stress we frequently forget ourselves and plunge into what we have to do when we need self-care most.
  9. SEEK SOLITUDE: Time alone to reflect, evaluate, set priorities, contemplate and fantasize is important.
  10. DO A ME-ACT: Me-acts are mini-vacations with two requirements -- do it alone and have no specific goals. Learn to loaf, browse, play, wander. Balance me-acts with social releases.
  11. ATTEND TO HEALTH AND NUTRITION: Get exercise, eat well. Avoid the "baddies" (tobacco, alcohol, food, caffeine, sugar, drugs)
  12. MINIMIZE COMPETITION: Do you compete with others? With your own high goals and standards? If you are unable to reduce the competition, try to live non-competitively in other areas in your life.
  13. IDENTIFY PERSONAL STRENGTHS: In a time of low stress, identify your strengths. Use this list to help you through high stress. Make up a trait list. Become less dependent on others for approval or disapproval. Learn ways to change and renew yourself.
  14. RE-ASSESS CODE OF BEHAVIOR: Decide if you're trying to be the ideal student, friend, family member. Recognize what the ideal is and that this is probably impossible. Develop a new behavior code. Set realistic limits so you don't fear failure. Instead of trying to get along well with everyone, to never have problems or needs for others, to never be vulnerable, stressed, or angry, try to take time for yourself, to communicate, to consider the other person's viewpoint. Learn to be honest, and that you don't have to be first.
  15. DIVERSIFY INVESTMENTS: Spread your energies to school, family, friends, hobbies. Don't put all the eggs in one basket or burn-out becomes a possibility.

 

The Physiology of Teen Depression

An article by Dr. Bernadine Healy in U.S News and World Report in November 2003 described the physiological changes in teens that cause emotional reactions to be accentuated during the teenage years. Dr. Healy wrote "For teens, the ‘gut response’ part of the lower brain, the amygdala, rules. This tiny bundle of nerves mediates emotions like fear, anger, and anxiety. As teens mature, their frontal lobes, the domain of reason and judgment, increasingly rein in the "amygdala" and the emotional swings characteristic of teens start to level out. She wrote that for some sensitive teens, "seemingly ordinary stresses of school or social life—academic disappointments, embarrassments, and romantic breakups—can trigger crushing emotional pain and suicidal despondency." When teens get depressed, their levels of serotonin, the brain’s mood hormone, become abnormally low. Study results are conflicting regarding whether modern anti-depressants help relieve the sense of despair or not.

The sense of feeling low is widespread. In the 2001 Communities that Care survey, 35% of Fairfax County teens reported that they felt sad or hopeless for days or weeks at a time within the past year. Over eighteen percent reported seriously considering suicide in the past year, and 8% reported one or more suicide attempts in the past year. While these questions were not repeated in the 2003 survey, the results would likely have been similar.

 

Citizen Corps

A component of having a safe community is having properly trained volunteers who are committed to emergency preparedness and can respond when disaster threatens. Disasters can take many forms, including hurricanes, fires, sniper attacks, and terrorist bombs. Citizen Corps is an umbrella organization that creates opportunities for individuals to volunteer to help their communities prepare for and respond to emergencies. There are programs for anyone who is interested in supporting local law enforcement, emergency medical services, fire departments, disaster relief efforts and community health programs. Volunteers are needed to fill positions for emergency response teams, medical volunteers, administrative roles, community education, disaster recovery, and computer tasks.

Components of the Citizen Corps include:

You can help in many ways. For more information, or to register as a volunteer, you may call Volunteer Fairfax at 703-246-3460, or visit their website, http://www.volunteerfairfax.org/. You may also visit http://www.fairfaxcountycitizenscorps.org/ to obtain a description of volunteer opportunities, learn about training that is offered, and to register directly online.

 

Parent to Parent: Raising Kids in Washington

The Parents Council of Washington is an organization of about 55 independent schools in the greater Washington, D.C. area. Created in 1964, the organization is dedicated to fostering communication and cooperation among students, parents, and the school community. The Parents Council has issued a new edition of their book, Parent to Parent: Raising Kids in Washington.

The book describes physiological and emotional changes during the teen years. It book covers a wide variety of issues including social behaviors, alcohol and drugs, parent-student communication, stress and depression, harassment and bullying, managing time, and choosing a college. Individual copies of the book sell for $14.95, plus $2 shipping and handling. Contact Elizabeth Hayes at 703-528-4119 to order a copy.

 

Internet Safety

On May 27, 2004 the Safe Community Coalition sponsored a talk by Iris Beckwith, Director of Abuse Prevention Programs for Children for Childhelp USA-Virginia. Childhelp is a national non-profit working in the field of child abuse treatment, education and prevention.

Ms. Beckwith covered three major topics:

She said that the key to safe internet use is good parenting, communication, and supervision. A website which is particularly useful is http://www.safetyclicks.com/.

What Children Do Online

Children need the internet for school projects. They like to use the internet because they are not sure who they are and the internet levels the playing field. Almost all children have email accounts and screen names their parents don’t know about.

Teachers want students to:

The internet makes plagiarism easy. Students will share papers with next year’s students so that the same paper gets recycled. Consequences of plagiarism can be failing that assignment, or failing the class. Plagiarism may also ruin the student’s reputation and end up in a college application file.

Students download music, movies and games that are protected by copyright laws. They don’t understand the consequences of downloading and file sharing copyrighted material. They think it is OK because other children are doing it. Children can be, and are being, fined for this illegal behavior. There are many new websites where these things can be downloaded legally by paying for the content. Companies that provide music free get their revenue from getting into clients’ computers and selling their electronic addresses. Once their worms are in your computer, it is very difficult to get them out. Ms. Beckwith related a story that the administration at Penn Sate University was so concerned that students were using their university email accounts to download music, and thus making the university a party to their illegal activity, that they now give all students free Napster accounts and inform students that any illegal downloading will cause the student to lose university email account privileges.

Another student activity online is electronic bullying. Children use email, instant messaging, chatrooms, cell phones and mobile devices to stalk, intimidate, and threaten other children. Middle School administrators, parents, and teachers report that this is the biggest computer issue they are dealing with. Electronic bullying leads to multiple problems for the child victim and for the school.

Children can also buy alcohol and cigarettes online. Many children have their own credit card accounts that parents give them to learn financial responsibility; a downside is that they may be buying items parents would not want them to buy and which are, in this case, illegal. They may have the items shipped to the home of a friend to avoid your detection.

How Predators Gain Access to Your Children

Children believe they are safe if they don’t give out their name, address, or phone number. Sometimes children think they are safe if they lie about their name and use a friend’s name instead; the predator then gets access to information about the friend that can be misused. Studies show that one in every five children is sexually solicited on line. Last year 785 children went missing after meeting a person on line. Internet allows open discussion of sexual desires and shared ideas about ways to lure victims. Game rooms have a chat component. Children go back to the same game until they beat it; meanwhile, they become familiar with the names of others in the chat component. Predators will use this familiarity to send an instant message to the child and begin direct contact. Many teens keep journals, personal profiles, and web sites online. Very often these sites contain enough personal information for predators to identify the child. They contact the child and ask the child to call them on their 800 number. The originating phone number shows up on their caller ID; with the phone number, they can easily get the address and location of the child’s home.

What Parents Can Do to Control Access and Protect their Children

Parents need to talk to their children and set limits. For example, children under the age of 10 should not be allowed to use instant messaging. After that, they should be allowed to establish buddy lists of five friends, with the number expanding as they get older. Children should know everyone on their buddy list; they should not include "friends of friends." You should know their screen names and have access to their buddy lists. It is OK for you to check their buddy list frequently. As the child gets older, you might not check their sites unless you suspect that your child is in trouble. However, if you don’t have access information and your child becomes missing, you will need a search warrant to get into your own computer to access their files.

Remind your children not to talk to strangers, and that includes people they met in chat rooms or through instant messaging. Remind them they should never meet an online contact in person without the knowledge and permission of a trusted adult. Also make sure your children know to tell you if they believe they are approached online in an uncomfortable or frightening manner, and that they will not get in trouble for doing so.

During group sleepovers or parties, don’t let your children use instant messaging. In that setting, messages are more likely to be hurtful of others, or cause passwords and account information to be shared with their friends. Friends can then use this information to get into your family computer, gain access to credit card account numbers and much other private information.

Sit at the computer with your middle or high school student and watch the campaign on the http://www.ncmec.org/ website together. It will alert your child to the dangers of strangers in chat rooms.

Talk to your children about cyber-ethics. Explain to them that downloading illegal music is equivalent to stealing a CD in a record store.

When sending emails, instruct them not to forward emails with the addresses of their friends available to everyone on the addressee list. Either send the email as a blind carbon copy so everyone’s email doesn’t show, or cut and paste the message and send it directly to the intended recipient.

An adult in your household should be the system administrator for your computer. Then you can install software that allows you to track all IM messages. So long as your children do not know your password, they will have difficulty disabling the controls you establish. If you don’t believe you know enough about your computer to set the controls, you can hire companies like http://www.computergeeks.com/ that will come into your home, and for $50-$60 per hour, set up firewalls and the controls you want. Once the controls are set, you can get daily, weekly, or monthly reports of what sites your child accessed or tried to access, who is on their buddy list and who has been removed from it. If a site is locked to your child, but the child then has a need to access that site, you can either log on with your own password and let them see it, or you can unlock a particular site for a particular period of time.

It is important that you and your child together complete the privacy screens provided by AOL, Yahoo, Earthlink, and others. Some of these companies have limits once you list the child’s screen name and age. For example, limits can include the time of day or number of hours the child can access the chat room.

Don’t allow your child to provide specific information in their "away message." The message should state only that they are off-line at that time.

Don’t allow your child to use teen journals, personal profiles, or personal web pages since they can provide too much personal information.

It is important that you set limits for your children, and that you use the electronic controls that are available to you. While children will complain bitterly, they want you to be a parent and set safe boundaries for them.

 

Donations

SCC’s major vehicle for receiving private donations is through the brochure that is mailed home to the parents of students in local public and private schools. If you no longer have a student in a local school, you have no way of being reminded of the merits of contributing to SCC! To correct that deficiency, we are putting in this issue of the newsletter a form you can complete and mail with a check. We would appreciate your remembering SCC in your annual donations. Thank you.

SCC Donations

Please mail contributions to:

Safe Community Coalition
P.O. Box 7001
McLean, VA 22106

 

Name(s):_____________________________________________

Organization:___________________________________

Address:_______________________________________

City/State/Zip:__________________________________

Size of donation:

$100_______ $50_______ $35_______ Other_________

Email:__________________________________________

Check one: I would like to receive the newsletter:

By regular mail_________ By Email ____________
By notice of newsletter website availability ____________

 

Would You Like to Receive this Newsletter by Email?

We now offer SCC members the opportunity to receive this newsletter as a Microsoft Word attachment to an email or you may request notification by email that the electronic version of the newsletter is available on our website.and you can read or download it from there. If you would like to receive the newsletter by email, simply email us at scc@crosslink.net and indicate whether you want the Microsoft Word attachment or notice of website availability. If we do not hear from you, we will continue to mail you the newsletter by regular mail.

 

**Hardcopy printing for this newsletter is funded by the Drug-Free Communities Act